[OB] For the first time: A lot of crashes in multiplayer

[TheCabal]

Hello folks,

since coming back to DCS Open Beta after a pause of half a year, I'm getting regular crashes all the time on multiplayer. I'm located in Poland and fly on Growling Sidewinders Open Conflict server (located in Canada....). 

What I tried:

- Repair (Quick & Slow)
- Incr. Page file to 32GB on my C SSD-drive (Game is installed on M2 E:)
- Reduced graphics settings like shadows incl. secondary & flat blur etc., preload radius (though it always runs smooth enough for me on high)
- Deleted unnecessary mods (except of new Polish Air Force skins). 

Increasing the page file & lowering graphics at the same time made the game load even !extremly! slower and it crashed 2 minutes after takeoff. Need to test it again later.

It all runs very fluently before the crash. Sometimes I'm getting only as far as the border on this server.. if I'm lucky I get to fight another guy.

Support hinted the consideration to buy more RAM bc 16GB is not enough for comfortable multiplayer.... I get that.
Aren't there any other options left? Are 32GB the cure to play with high graphic settings on a full server?

My rig: GE73 Raider RGB 8RF (16GB; GTX 1070); Windows 11, everything updated.

Lot's of question marks...

Attachments:
The zip is from yesterday and the log from right after the recent crash. There wasn't even any question to create & send a report. 

Crash characteristics: Picture suddenly comes to a hold or there is 1 massive stutter before crash while the sound progresses normally and then I'm back to desktop, many times without a crash-report window.

What can I do?  Am I really out of options? I'm clueless and frustrated.

Greetings,
Cabal

dcs.log-20230506-212126.zip dcs.log

Edited May 7, 2023 by TheCabal
Typos, additional info etc.

[TheCabal]

End of story (even if nobody tried to help...):

Alex from support helped out a bit more to understand these crashes. -> Low amount of RAM for such a heavy loader like Growling Sidewinders server. My system was literally sucked dry.

Also, found a reddit discussion in which people already stated three years ago, that 32GB are mandatory for years to get a good MP experience. 

End of story: I'm gonna get me some new RAMs (2x 16GB Kingston Fury CL15) for my laptop.

Edited May 10, 2023 by TheCabal